Category 1
The type of comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"
Answer: What is a simile?
The beginning of a story where characters and settings are introduced.
Answer: What is the exposition?
A word that describes an action, an occurrence, or a state of being.
Answer: What is a verb?
The perspective when a character tells the story using "I", "me", and "my".
Answer: What is first-person?
The punctuation mark used to separate items in a list or join clauses.
Answer: What is a comma?
Extreme exaggeration used to make a point, such as "I'm starving".
Answer: What is hyperbole?
The turning point or most exciting moment of a story.
Answer: What is the climax?
A word used to modify or describe a noun.
Answer: What is an adjective?
The perspective used when the narrator speaks directly to the reader using "you".
Answer: What is second-person?
A sentence error that occurs when two complete thoughts are joined without punctuation.
Answer: What is a run-on sentence?
Giving human qualities or actions to non-human objects or animals.
Answer: What is personification?
The main struggle or problem that drives the story's action.
What is the conflict?
A word that takes the place of a noun, like "he", "she", or "it".
Answer: What is a pronoun?
An all-knowing narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of every character.
Answer: What is third-person omniscient?
This punctuation mark shows ownership or represents missing letters in a contraction.
Answer: What is an apostrophe?
A comparison that states one thing is another thing without using "like".
Answer: What is a metaphor?
The events in a story that happen after the climax and lead to the end.
Answer: What is the falling action?
A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb, often ending in -ly.
Answer: What is an adverb?
A narrator who only knows the thoughts and feelings of one single character.
Answer: What is third-person limited?
A group of words that looks like a sentence but is missing a subject or a predicate.
Answer: What is a sentence fragment?
Words that mimic the actual sounds they describe, like "buzz" or "pop".
What is onomatopoeia?
The final part of the plot where loose ends are tied up.
Answer: What is the resolution?
A word that shows the relationship of a noun to another word, like "under" or "through".
Answer: What is a preposition?
A narrator who only reports observable actions and dialogue without revealing any thoughts.
Answer: What is third-person objective?
The punctuation marks used to enclose direct speech or exact words spoken.
Answer: What are quotation marks?